Michael's Snow — a film by Susan Shaw

Michaels Snow is a reference to two very different kinds of seminal events in my life. The first has to with art experience. I saw Michael Snows Wavelength in 1967. In the film a camera zooms slowly—from the end of a room to a photograph of waves on the wall at the opposite end. The zoom is accompanied by a sine wave as it gradually progresses from its lowest note to its highest and passes through color filters, film stocks, positive and reverse exposure. I have never seen the film again but it has always remained with me—thus I know it was/is a seminal art experience.

The second has to do with sadness and loss, relational in proportion to the people I love. When I made this film I thought it was about snow, now I know it is about the winters of my heart.

For more information about Susan Shaw go to:
www.slshaw.info
www.susanandkurt.blogspot.com

For more information about Conrad Cummings go to:
www.conradcummings.com

©2009 Susan Shaw

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[WimGrundy]

evocative . . . and a bit eerie . . . elegiac. glad you saw Snow's WAVELENGTH. Quite an experience projected; not sure i have the concentration needed any more for experiencing it on the small screen... may have to project the version we have here thanks to YouTube: greatest medium since Gutenberg!

[Levinitus]

Very very beautiful!